A Few São Paulo Photos

This was my lunch yesterday in São Paulo, the traditional sausage sandwich, calabresa com queijo. Very tasty and well spiced, and the bread is so good too. Doesn't come with a lot of flair, but for around US$2 what do you expect?





A view of São Paulo from the air as my flight to Curitiba takes off. This isn't even looking at the main downtown area with the really big buildings and high density. The city is just so damn expansive! I can't get over how big it is. We joked when looking at a view from the tallest building in the city that everyone in my hometown would fit in one building here.

Last day in São Paulo

Another good day of touring São Paulo. Went to the Japanese neighborhood, walked through several Sunday markets, rode the subway a few times, went to two art galleries. One of the galleries is supposedly the best collection in the southern hemisphere, but the permanent collection was closed and we got screwed out of seeing works by Bosch, Rembrandt and Degas.

Good food today. I had a calabresa com queijo for lunch, which is a traditional Brazilian sausage sandwich with cheese. Very tasty! The bread your typical sandwich comes on is very good. A bit chewy but flaky too. A chicken coixina for dinner at a small lanchonete down the street from our hotel was good too. Apparently we are in a region of Brazilian cuisine that is one of the most carnivorous diets on the planet. EVERYTHING involves meat. "Com salada" on the end of a dish or sandwich simply means with lettuce and tomato; they do not understand the idea of serving vegetables in any substantial way.

Might try to get up early tomorrow to walk around a bit before heading to the airport for our flight to Curitiba!

Happy Mother's Day Mom!!